Subject: x-Jim & Edna
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> Edna
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> Jim and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while
> they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly jumped
> into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna
> promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out
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> When the Director of Nursing became aware of Edna's heroic act, she
> immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now
> considered her to be mentally stable. When she went to tell Edna the
> news she said, "Edna, I have good news and bad news. The good news is
> you're being discharged; since you were able to rationally respond to a
> crisis by jumping in and saving the life of another patient, I have concluded
> that your act displays sound-mindedness. The bad news is that Jim, the
> patient you saved, hung himself in his bathroom with the belt to his robe
> right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead."
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> Edna replied, "He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry. How
> soon can I go home?"
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